Improvement in printers galleys



A. T. De PUY. PRINTERS GALLEY.

Patented May 2,1876.

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MPETES, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. 0*,C.

. PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER T. DE nur,

wNEW YORK, Nj Y., AssieNoE To HOE a .,oo.,

or SAMEl A PLAcE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRINTERS GALLEVS.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 176,777, dated May 2, 1876; application filed August 30, 1875.

To all whom tmay concern:

Be itknown that I, ALEXANDER T. DE

' PUY, of the city, county, and State of New York, vhave invented an Improvement in Printers Galleys, of which thefollowing is a specification: i

ln the accompanying drawing, forming part of this speciication-lik'e letters indicating like parts-is represented, in Figure l, a perspective view of my improved galley; Fig. 2,

a sectional view thereof on line xm of Fig. l.;

Figs. 3 and 5, part sections.; and in Fig. 4,.a full cross-section of modifications thereof.

The object of my invention is to construct a galley in sucha manner as. to leave per-l fectly smooth bottom and inside metallic surfaces.

It cousistsin making the sides and bottom of a single sheet of metal so bent as to form the edge rails and firmly support the same at right angles to the bottom plate, and yet leave them and the latter with perfectly smooth surfaces.

The galley is formed from a sheet or plate of brass, or other suitable metal, by bending the edges thereof around or over suitable formers, or any of the well-known methods of working sheet metal, until they assume the sirable.

In some eases the plate C may be secured in position by screws extending through it into the lling D, and similar screws extending through the bottom plate into'said lling. v.

These side .and end'rails may have any seetional configuration desirable which provides for a right-angular position of the side plate C, with relation tothe bottom plate A. The form shown in Figs. l and -2 is the most pracltical, since it affords strength, beauty, and

-smooth surfaces, but a simple triangular form as in Fig. 3, or the square-cornered triangular shape of Fig. 4:, may be,adopted.

,In the formsjillustrated it is to be observed that the angularside B forms a strong brace, supporting the inner plate C; but the sheet ot metal may be so bent as to form edge rails which are square, or nearly so, with equal advantage. While the side and end rails may all be formed in the manner described-a proper rshape being given to the plate after the mode practiced in cutting out boxes whose sides are bent up and united to form mitered cornersit may be desirable in some instances to insert a section of a previously-formed rail, as'

shownin Fig. 5, to constitute the end rail. In such case the bottom plate A will be left to project a proper distance to support the said end piece, which will be soldered to the side rails at the mitered corners b b', and along the bottom edges of its vertical plates, as at a a',

Fig. 5. l

'lhe Asoldered seam uniting the edge Vof the plate C to the bottom A may be confined between the abutting surfaces, though a con` siderable body of solder may be disposed at the innerangle formed bythe union of the edge O of the plate A with the latter, as shown in Fig. 4, which will securely hold the parts in place.

The fillingor interior supports D of the edge rails may be dispensed with, thoughl where thin metal is used the additional strength and rmness they impart are desirable.

What I claim as of my invention isl. A printers galley, the side rails of vwhich are bent, from the sheet `or blank forming `the bottom, into such tubular form as shall present an interior wall or'side at right angles to1 the bottom plate, substantially as described. 2. In combination with side rails formed by bending the bottom plate into tubular form, the end pieces so shaped as to conformto the plane surface of the bottom plate and to the ends of the side rails, and be united thereto to form a printers galley, substantially as described.

3. A printers galley formed of one piece 0f Y tially as described.

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sheet metal, consisting of the wells or sides C, In testimony whereof I have signed my braces B, of any suitable shape, and bottom name to this specification in the presence of or base A, substantially as described. two subscribing witnesses.

4. In combination with the edge rails,formed ALEXANDER T. DE PUY. by bending a single sheet or blank into tubu Witnesses: lar form, the supportiugpieces D, substan- H. T. MUNSON,

D. M. SOMERS. 

